Claude Levi-Strauss seen in this Jan. 13, 1967 file photo. The Academie Francaise said Tuesday Nov 3 2009 that Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, had died. He was 100. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.(AP Photo, HO)

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“But right in the middle of the steaming and the making and the smelling and the baking Mickey poked through and said: ‘I’m not the milk and milk’s not me! I’m Mickey!’”


“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn’t care no more about him, because I don’t take no stock in dead people.”

“When weekends come, we do all sorts of things together. We go to ball games, visit the zoo, go to the beach, work in the yard, go shopping, and in the evenings we sing at the piano.”

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how may parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

“I couldn’t stop myself from peeking occasionally through the screen of my hair at the strange boy next to me. During the whole class, he never relaxed his stiff position on the edge of his chair, sitting as far from me as possible.”

“Harry, though still rather small and skinny for his age, had grown a few inches over the last year. His jet-black hair, however, was just as it always had been — stubbornly untidy, whatever he did to it. The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning.”

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